John H. Bankhead II

John Hollis Bankhead II (8 June 1872-12 June 1946) was a US Senator from Alabama (D) from 4 March 1931 to 12 June 1946, succeeding J. Thomas Heflin and preceding George R. Swift.

Biography
John Hollis Bankhead II was born in Moscow, Lamar County, Alabama in 1872, the son of US Senator John H. Bankhead. In 1903, after ten years of practicing law, Bankhead was elected to the State House of Representatives, and he worked at the passage of New Deal legislation to benefit the state's cotton farmers. He also sponsored a bill to exempt full-time farmers from the draft during World War II, and he was in third place to be Franklin B. Roosevelt's running mate in 1944, only to withdraw his candidacy in favor of Harry S. Truman. Bankhead died in Bethesda, Maryland in 1946 from complications from a stroke.